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Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Lone Star Baby Quilt

I joined my local Modern Quilt Guild back in February of this year and I'm so glad I did. I've met so many encouraging women who love, love to quilt. Many of them have been quilting for years. There are also some like me, who have only just begun our quilting exploration. A special part of each meeting is show and tell. It has been very inspiring!

I was so inspired that I made my very first quilt. I found a design that drew me in and got the creative juices flowing. The Lone Star Baby Quilt was the perfect size to dive into. I got out all of my scraps and began hunting for color combinations that worked together.

Amy did a great job on the tutorial - I followed the instructions with no changes. The only trouble I had was getting all the points to meet in the middle - easier said than done.

In the end, it worked out pretty well. I like how the blue, brown, and coral tones work together. I didn't realize until taking pictures of the final product, but the darker tan and peach solids that are part of the framing make a couple of the areas look like elongated cubes and somewhat detract from the star shape. I think if I did it over again, I would use all white background fabrics for that area. I really like the dark binding that I made from scraps of the darker fabrics. I think it frames the quilt nicely. And, I really got to practice hand stitching. I did all of the binding with a needle and thread and my own two hands.

For the back, I decided to have some fun with the leftover scraps. It took just as long (maybe longer) to do the back as it did to make the front. I curved the strips of fabric, which made the piecing a challenge.

To me, it sort of looks like a row of books on a library shelf. Even though I used all scraps, there are still some scraps left. I guess they weren't small enough to begin with.

The quilting shows up pretty well on this side of the fabric. I experimented a bit, but just ended up with some straight line quilting along the each of the edge of the star and the surrounding pieces. I may be more adventurous next time with some free motion quilting, but I do like the simplicity of the straight stitching too!

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